Category Archives: Uniquely Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Horses we Love
The following was originally published in the Spring 2007 Bulletin. At the time, Samantha Pleasant ’02 was Associate Director of Admissions and a riding instructor here at SBS. Her words still reflect the feelings of so many students and alumnae … Continue reading
The Magical World of Musician
I used to think making music was magic. I guess, after doing it, I still do. – Lisa Bastarache. ’99 (from her yearbook page) I will never forget the first time I saw Dar Williams in concert. She opened for … Continue reading
On and on…
With the 8th grade theater production going up tonight, they needed a solid chunk of two hours this morning to run the play in costume start to finish, debrief with their theater teachers, and go back over any scenes that … Continue reading
Time Passes
It was not easy to tear ourselves away from the games. The varsity soccer team was playing for the league championship in a closely-contested tie game (we would eventually lose in a shootout), and the sun was shining warmly down … Continue reading
A Tale in Tweets, Posts and Photos.
September 28, 2011: @sbschoolorg Good luck to #volleyball as they take on Cheshire Academy & good luck to #soccer as they take on Miss Halls School! Bring back a win girls! We lost to Miss Halls and our record was … Continue reading
Getting It Right
Stoneleigh-Burnham has a long tradition of periodic “formal dinners,” which were inexplicably called “sit-down dinners” when I first started at the school in 1985 (to my memory, anyway, we did not eat all other meals standing up). Many different methods … Continue reading
Storm Family
When I was teaching English at the Université de Bordeaux, my parents sent me a collection of cassettes from the radio program “A Prairie Home Companion” for my birthday. It was a touch of home I very much appreciated, and … Continue reading
Bookends: Volume 2: Allow Me to Burst Your Bubble
By the time students enroll in the IB Diploma Programme they have amassed a great deal of knowledge. My job, as their Theory of Knowledge teacher, is to make them forget it. Alec Peterson, the first Director General of the … Continue reading
Love At, No, Before First Sight
In my senior year of high school I joined the Drama Club, and was quickly fascinated by the strength, self-possession and worldliness of veterans of many productions. One of our favorite games to play while nonchalantly waiting to put on … Continue reading
Listening through the Wall: Middle School Select Chorus Auditions and the Spirit of Our School
I can’t see the students on the other side of the wall from my office, but I can imagine the scene that I’m hearing as I listen. The girls sit in a loosely formed circle, some perched on stools, some … Continue reading
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Bill Ivey, Stoneleigh-Burnham Middle School Dean
Laura Lavallee, Assoc. Dir. of Admissions
Liz Feeley, Associate Director of Development and Alumnae Relations
Sally Mixsell, Head of School
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